Tonic and aperient alterative pill



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

TQNIC AND APERIENT ALTERATIVE PILL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146, dated October 28, 1837.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. 'OELLIG, of Waynesborongh, in the county of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania, have discovered a new and useful Compound Medicine, called Oelligs Tonic and Aperient Alterative Pills, which is described as follows:

The following is the compound for one hundred and fifty pills: Grab-apple-root bark, one dram and a half; rhubarb, two drams; extractof hoarhound, twenty grains; sal-soda, two scruples; and 'castile soap suflicient to make the above into a mass for. pills.

. It is an undeniable truth that many medicines which are recommended to the public have not even the negative meritof being harmless. Nevertheless there are others which possess sterling merit, and among that class certainly ranks my tonic and aperient alterative pills. After thirty-seven years practice and nntired attention to the different disorders of the digestivepower of the stomach, I can contidently recommend the above pills in the various diseases hereinafter named-namely, all derangements of the stomach and-bowels, as dyspepsia in its different degrees, by removing thesourness and costiveness so frequentin symptoms of dyspeptic persons, fnnctionald'erangement of the liver, sick-headache, cardialgia or neuralgic facier, chronic rheumatisms, tic' doloreux, incipient consumptions, epileptia, palpitation of the heart, derangement or suspension of the menses, hysteria, melancholia, nervous convulsions, delirium trcmens or mania-potn, and in all cases of mania and nervous debility occasioned by the use of drastic purgatives, palsy, cramp of the stomach, podagra or gout, and by their power give strength to weak eyes and restore loss of hearing occasioned by debility.

Many of the mostdifficult and obstinate cases of the above diseases have been radically cured by the above tonic aperient alterative pills.

The discovery claimed by me, the said JOHN J. OELLIG, and which I desire to secure by Letters Patent, consists in the above-described compound medicine, called Oelligs Tonic and Aperient Alterativc Pills.

7 JOHN J. OELLIG.

Witnesses: WM. P. ELLIOT, JAMES GETTYS. 

